The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-07-21
AN ESSAY ON DOGS.
The Moral Danger That Surrounds Many
of New Yorlx's Young Men.


This has been very busy week in
New York for the dog industry.
The great dog festival and canine
| congress of short and long distance
dogs, game dogs, society dogs, wild,
wooliy and weird dogs. early, smooth,
American hairless dogs, Rembrandt
dogs, low-browed and base dogs, with
strong love for home and an over
mastering desire to partake of people
with whom they are not acquainted;
intellectual dogs with lop ears. early
dwarf dogs, plain dogs for poor peo-
| pie, self-made but earnest dogs within
the reach of all, dogs with singular
coed qualities and plural bad ones, all
this mighty aggregation of what the
Interstate Commission might be par
doned for calling the long howl and
the short howl, has been in session.
1t has served to call our attention to
the dogs that cluster about or own
do0rs-the dogs, the dogs, the dear
little dogs with whom we are thrown
| in contact
Some dogs are priced for their beau
y, others for their aiectionate dispo-
sition and clinging natures. while
others are much sought for on account
of their social qualities, which endear
them to all while they live, and cast a
large. wide gloom over the circle of
friends in which they moved, when
at last they die, as is too often the lot
| of all.
But the object of this treatise is not
so much to enter into the great his
tory, derivation, and diagnosis of the
dog, as it is to point out the great dan
ger which lies at our door, IN case we
allow the dog to become our master.
No stranger can walk the streets of
New York and see the large number of
| otherwise exemplary young men who
are being misled by dogs to whom they
are attached, without feeling a keen
paug of regret and apprehension.
1t IS with 4 view towards the eman-
! cipation aud amelioration of this
class of young men that | write to-
day.
l was once a young man myself. L
know what it is to be tempted and al
lured by the false joys which extend
their smooth and seductive yet power
ful and unrelenting arms into the most
| frequented walks of life, only at last
to seize rs and hurl US over the barbed-
wire fence which divides the narrow
and lonesome paths OF rectitude from
the oyer-croWded and over-fed past
| ures of remorse But | am not here to
state how ! have evaded all these
things and to hope that these few lines
viii find you enjoying the same great
blessing, but to warn the young men
| OF New York in stentorian tones of
their danger.
Let me say it in italics:
IoHRg nun, bctOre yOU place yOatr-
SciJ III charge Of q dog, try to ascertain
his true Rut2tTe and nUttUe tc9dencieS
In case there is room to spare, |
wish the printer would make the above
statement in small caps and also in
large black-faced caps where it will
attli.ct attention.
Aptning - more gratifying than the
sight of cute lttle mackerel Skye
terrier with black clammy nose,
having fun with sensitive, clinging
young man weighing two hundred
pounds.
enjoy seeing a dapper little pop
corn-ball dog, with deep set. sinister
eyes, taking its master out for an air
ing in the clear, crisp morning, and |
like to watch the young mans ill-con-
cealed JOY as he scampers along be-
hind carrying his nine-pound horizon
tai cane and dummy gloves in his lily
white hand But it would be well to
know the motives, the tendencies, and
the aims Of such Il dog!
l speak OF this matter Just as | would
if my own son had attained an age Of
thirty on forty years and was just bud
ding into manhood. / could not, 0,
indeed I could not, intrust him TO the
care ANA guardianship OF an unknown
and uutricd though perhaps alluring
dUg.
do not rcproye the ladies OF New
York fol taking hold of small chain
to the other end of which small,
fluffy dog has attached himself.
Women can do such things. But man
is more yielding, more trusting in his
nature, and if he felt that he could
trust certain dog, that dog might
lead him anywhere.
do not know why men were made
50 week and trusting, but they are that
way and they cannot help it. All they
want Is some one to love and follow
about and admire.
l knew young man once who came
to New York a stranger, as many peo-
pie are who were never here before.
He was totally unused to the ways of
large city and his head was turned
by the novelty which confronted him
on every hand, and before he knew it
he had placed himself in the power of
an lnsinuating metropolitan dog that
resemblcd a lamp-chimney cleaner in
gale of wind. Last Sunday that dog
led his companion through side door
into a saloon that was closed. Sight
draft beer was ten cents per glass.
will not pain the reader with what
followed, but if what l have said may
set even one young man to thinking,
or cause him to pause and to weigh
well the character of the dog into
whose keeping he has intrusted his
whole life and its aims, its achieve
ments, ana its possibilities, I shall not
have labored in vain.-BjU Nye ie Ne10
HOr5 World.